Purifying plants for your home
Looking for some house plants that can add help purify your air? Check these out!
Areca Palm Tree
The Areca Palm Tree is one of the most popular indoor houseplants. The Areca Palm is an exotic looking plant that can reach a height of 8ft indoors and 25ft outdoors. This plant will help eliminate toxins such as benzene, formaldehyde and trichloroethylene.
The tree needs indirect bright light.
Lady Palm
The lady palm can adapt to a variety of conditions. The palm can grow up to 14 ft but can also be potted in a small container and be used as a table plant. The lady palm will help remove these toxins: ammonia, formaldehyde, xylene, and carbon dioxide.
The palm needs bright indirect light.
Peace Lily
The peace lily is a beautiful plant to bring indoors, it breaks down and neutralizes toxic gases like benzene, formaldehyde, and carbon monoxide.
Medium indirect sunlight is best for the peace lily.
Spider Plant
The Spider Plant is resilient plant that will purify the air from toxins like benzene, formaldehyde, and carbon monoxide.
Spider plant will thrive in bright indirect sunlight.
Bamboo Palm
The bamboo palm is a great air purifier because of it's large presence in a indoor space. The bamboo palm will purify the home from pollutants like benzene, formaldehyde, and trichloroethylene.
The bamboo palm will thrive in direct sunlight.
Aloe Vera
Aloe Vera has anti-inflammatory properties and while indoors will help purify the home from formaldehyde.
Aloe Vera plants need indirect sunlight.
Boston Fern
The boston fern will remove pollutants such as formaldehyde and xylene.
This plant needs high humidity and indirect sunlight.
Images from google.
Information source: UC Berkley
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